Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 19
His mother called the children and found a strange child, who soon proved that he was her son.
Who acts: mother, strange child, Maui · What happens: call, find, prove, be · To what, where: children, strange child, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, strange child, Maui), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proved | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 proved | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 proved | advmod |
| 14 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 child | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 son | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 son | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | cop |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 proved | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Maui's mother | the children | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Maui's mother not said here | a strange child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prove | past | a strange child | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Maui | mother's son | mother nmod:poss | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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